After the surrender of the German troops defending the Longues battery, the Royal Air Force engineers took control of the cliff-top and set up an...
Just like all the other major construction works forming the Atlantic Wall, but with the added curiosity of being situated right in the centre of...
During the D-Day operation, Canadian officers in Courselles-sur-Mer study a captured German model of the beaches. [img]
On Britain's huge Glider aircraft the Hamilcar, which the Germans believed to be a troop carrier depended much of the success of the Allied...
To enable the forces already on the Normandy coast on D-Day to be reinforced and kept supplied with utmost speed it was necessary that two...
When Britain’s fortunes were at its lowest ebb in 1940, when the Army had returned almost weapon less from Dunkirk and the full fury of Hitler’s...
A Lancaster bomber pilot from London, Squadron Leader E. Sprawson, D.F.C., wearing patched blue overalls and a dirty scarf told a Reuter...
Flying the White Ensign of the Royal Navy, landing craft of manifold types made possible victorious advances from the sea; the climax of their...
In June 1945, my Regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, was running a POW camp for Germans that had surrendered to us at the war's end. The...
Captain and crew of USS Zeilin (APA 3) pause on D-Day to commit casualties to the deep. The three dead men, two Marines and a Navy surgeon, were...
Werner Pluskat was a German Major who died in 1996, commander of the 352nd Artillery of the German 352nd Infantry Division during Allied invasion...
General Sir Richard Nelson Gale GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (1896 – 1982) In World War II he served with 1st Parachute Brigade and then the 6th Airborne...
The Hoback brothers of the 29th Infantry Division were killed on the same day at Omaha. Their company, the first to land at dawn on D-Day was...
In June 1944, the Longues-sur-Mer control bunker still showed some weaknesses which were felt during the battle. First of all, the bunker was...
To improve detection of enemy movements, the range-finding post was backed up by two observation posts located a few kilometres east and west of...
A major factor in the success of the Allies from the second half of 1941 onwards was the cracking of the Enigma machine. Enigma was the name of a...
M3A1 Scout car in France during the summer of 1944, its overall olive drab painted over with a black pattern. [IMG] Dodge 4x4 weapons...
From BBC News site today: BBC NEWS | UK | Audio Slideshow: D-Day and Auschwitz from the air
Accurate insertion of airborne forces was always difficult during the Second World War, but in 1944 the Allies developed the Rebecca-Eureka...
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